Return To My Native Land

Author: Aime Cesaire
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year: 1939/2024
Pages: 96
ISBN: 978-0241535394

This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man''s return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.